Sanitary Journal: A Journal of Hygiene and Public HealthA. Macdougla, 1897 |
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1000 per annum albuminoid albuminoid ammonia ammonia analysis animal ashpit authority burgh carcases cause cells cent chlorine cholera clean committee compared contamination corresponding month dairy defective destructor diarrhoea diphtheria diphtheria and membranous disinfected district drainage drains enteric fever epidemic erysipelas Fintry four weeks ending free ammonia Glasgow grains per gallon houses impurity infectious disease inspection Laurencekirk Lennoxtown lodging-houses matter measles meat medical officer membranous croup microbes milk month of last mortality nitrates notice Notification Act nuisances number of deaths occurred outbreak patients period persons pipes plumber pollution population practically preceding month present previous four weeks Public Health Act Public Health Scotland puerperal fever refuse regarding removed to hospital reports sanitary inspector scarlet fever Scotland sewage sewer showed smallpox smoke test soil specimen town typhoid fever typhus fever vaccination ventilation visits water supply water-closets whooping-cough
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Page 457 - Viet c. 63), for havicg sold to the prejudice of the purchaser a certain article of food, to wit, beer, which was not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by the purchaser.
Page 212 - ... wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there.
Page 213 - ... there shall be three coats of paint or varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be renewed once at least in every seven years, and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months ; where lime-washed the lime-washing shall be renewed once at least in every six months.
Page 211 - ... such means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed therein as can reasonably be required under the circumstances of each case...
Page 209 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family:
Page 212 - So far as regards sanitary provisions, safety, accidents, the affixing of notices and abstracts and the matters to be specified in such notices (so far as they apply to laundries), notice of occupation of a factory or workshop, powers of inspectors, fines, and legal proceedings for any failure to comply with the provisions of this section, and education of children...
Page 210 - When it appears to an inspector of factories that any act, neglect, or default, in relation to any drain, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ash-pit, water supply, nuisance, or other matter in a factory or in a workshop...
Page 215 - Every person shall, within one month after he begins to occupy a factory, serve on an inspector a written notice containing the name of the factory, the place where it is situate, the address to which he desires his letters to be addressed, the nature of the work, the nature and amount of the moving power therein, and the name of the firm under which the business of the factory is to be carried on, and in default shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
Page 213 - ... unless it is effectually separated from the bakehouse by a partition extending from the floor to the ceiling ; and unless there be an external glazed window of at least nine superficial feet in area, of which at the least four and a half superficial feet are made to open for ventilation.
Page 215 - Act in any district, shall be provided with sufficient and suitable accommodation in the way of sanitary conveniences, having regard to the number of persons employed in or in attendance at such building, and also where persons of both sexes are employed, or intended to be employed, or in attendance, with proper separate accommodation for persons of each sex.